Discover A Plethora Of HIV Tests To Help In Diagnosis And Treatment

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 12, 2012 -- Learn more about a variety of HIV tests that are available for you, including blood, antibody, saliva and much more. These tests are specifically designed to detect if you have attracted human immunodeficiency virus, which is the virus that causes AIDS. However, if you have been exposed to HIV within the last 72 hours, you may be able to benefit from early HIV PEP (post exposure prophylaxis/prevention). This treatment has a very high success rate of preventing you from becoming infected with the HIV virus.

With HIV infection, there is a window period in which your HIV infection will go undetected from an HIV test Singapore. Within that window, your HIV tests will come back negative, however during this period you are highly infectious to others if in fact you have been infected with HIV. Depending on the HIV test is that you have, the performance of your test will often be described in a term of either sensitivity or specificity, depending on the specific test you have performed.

Because of these requirements, most tests that are currently used for HIV infection testing require a high degree of both specificity and sensitivity. This is done by using a test that combines these two types of tests for HIV antibodies. If there are any antibodies detected in your body by the initial test then a second test will be used to ensure accuracy of your diagnosis.

If you feel you have been subjected to the HIV virus in any way, it is important for you to know that as physicians, we are bound to keep any and all of your personal information private at all times. In this manner, you are assured of your confidentiality and privacy being maintained, because as physicians, we are required to adhere to a variety of ethical as well as legal principles. In this manner, we will ensure that your HIV testing will be confidential, consensual and we will always provide you counseling if you test positive for the HIV virus.

At our clinic, we can provide you with a wide variety of DNA tests, which can include the HIV nucleic acid test, which is most commonly used for early diagnosis of the HIV infections in babies born to HIV-positive mothers. We can provide you with an HIV antigen test, which will show a specific antigen that appears in early infection, before any HIV antibodies appear on your test. We can also provide you with an oral test, saliva or even a finger prick blood test. Results of each of these tests are often available within 20 minutes.

Although each of these HIV tests have varying window periods, if you think that you have been exposed to the HIV virus, it is vital for you to be tested as soon as you can. You can log onto the Internet at www.SingaporeHIV.com to learn more about the various HIV tests and other tests that can be conducted to detect HIV. You can also learn about treatments, symptoms, risks, prevention treatments and much more.

Get to know about the various kinds of HIV test Singapore has on offer for conducting HIV test at specific clinics.

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